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our foreign policy to this day, to this week, to president obama talking a week ago about our role in syria are not powerful in syria, whether there should be a moral component to american foreign policy. all of this stuff, all of these questions. is america the policeman of the world? that all goes back as indeed does every major policy decision come is certainly one involving an american incursion i'll spare in the world all goes back to one line, the world must be made safe for democracy. .. >> we're going to war.ly w we, a country with an army theek size of that of portugal, was now going to send two million men overseas. and i'm not talking aboutm n crossing the pond here, we're talking about the atlantic ocean. w and, indeed, america went to war. and as a result of that war, america emerged as the first great modern superpower. indeed, a genuine military industrial complex for the first time.the wilson's main reason -- there are all sorts of things, and a there are chapters in the book on this, but wilson's main reason i believe that he sent us into this war, was that he believe
our foreign policy to this day, to this week, to president obama talking a week ago about our role in syria are not powerful in syria, whether there should be a moral component to american foreign policy. all of this stuff, all of these questions. is america the policeman of the world? that all goes back as indeed does every major policy decision come is certainly one involving an american incursion i'll spare in the world all goes back to one line, the world must be made safe for democracy. .....
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in urbana-champaign, and i saw this young, fresh-faced guy running for the senate called barack obama. and i was at the house of friends, and can they said he is the great hope of the democrats. and i said, well, let's watch him because i'm always interested in great heaps. [laughter] great hopes. and the great hope was asked, president bush has said that it might be necessary to bomb iran and take out their nuclear installations or whatever they're doing, and what would be your position on that? i support the president totally. said the great hope. [laughter] so that was my first sighting of him, and i just felt instinctively that this is a guy who is really going to try to please, and he is a weak guy in many ways. and is not going to push through some tiny shift in domestic or global policies. >> to watch this program in its entirety, go to booktv.org. simply type the title or the author's name at the top left of the screen and click search. wh >> i'm holding "the essential engineer: why science alone will not solve our global problems."h its author joins me, henry petroski. welcom
in urbana-champaign, and i saw this young, fresh-faced guy running for the senate called barack obama. and i was at the house of friends, and can they said he is the great hope of the democrats. and i said, well, let's watch him because i'm always interested in great heaps. [laughter] great hopes. and the great hope was asked, president bush has said that it might be necessary to bomb iran and take out their nuclear installations or whatever they're doing, and what would be your position on...
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so the of the week obama's at the debt is not a problem. for 10 years we don't have to worry about debt. not just that, deficit spending close become. i read almost everything again online and there are furious people in mainstream publications who sat there and argued during the debt ceiling debate that we should have a trillion dollar platinum coin, deposited in the treasury and wash her hands of this. these are serious people and they called the tea party crazy. safi like the whole world is spinning out of control and i'm the only normal person in it, with you guys, and everyone has just gone crazy. think about obama and budgets and everything we talk about. his budget is a huge massive zero-sum fallacy masquerading as policy. it's not a budget like you think of a budget. it's not about economic growth. it's about fairness. he doesn't care about growth. he looks at the world as a piper come sure most of you read milton friedman and you have ridiculous that is. which brings the to the scares prospect of all. what does this say? well, to m
so the of the week obama's at the debt is not a problem. for 10 years we don't have to worry about debt. not just that, deficit spending close become. i read almost everything again online and there are furious people in mainstream publications who sat there and argued during the debt ceiling debate that we should have a trillion dollar platinum coin, deposited in the treasury and wash her hands of this. these are serious people and they called the tea party crazy. safi like the whole world is...
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not unlike what happened three, four weeks ago on the election night at ole miss. one newspaper reporter had called it a race riot, racist riot occurring by the -- well, it was not that. anti-obama students, pro-romney students came out onto the campus and demonstrated. the right, they can do that against the results of the election, and a handful of students were screaming out racial slurs. putting that in context, then the next day three times that amount of people showed up for a candlelighter is mopeny protesting the -- ceremony, protesting the incident the night before. so mississippi was, mississippi is. it's moving on. but, yes, you're right. there's more and more that should come out and talk about it. so you can get a balanced picture that their view of the south may not be the correct view today. it's not just a bunch of rioters throwing bricks. thank you. john. >> henry, can you talk a little more about the special security detail that you had following, you know, your initial -- >> sure. >> -- and how were, i assume you were just chosen for that, but wa
not unlike what happened three, four weeks ago on the election night at ole miss. one newspaper reporter had called it a race riot, racist riot occurring by the -- well, it was not that. anti-obama students, pro-romney students came out onto the campus and demonstrated. the right, they can do that against the results of the election, and a handful of students were screaming out racial slurs. putting that in context, then the next day three times that amount of people showed up for a...
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if they did they would be fired in two weeks. you wonder why the obama six the iris on me. i speak honestly to govern in place can work in the private sector. you either do or you can't. that's what our country failing to i ask this question all over the world. i speak about branding from one end of this earth today of the. i was just in amsterdam and asked foreign audiences this question. raise your hand if you think i am passionate and i energy. raise your hand. do i have a lot of energy? now compare my energy to the employees of the department of motor vehicles employ. i get laughter in every country in the world. do you know what that means? small businessmen like a wakeup in the morning and we don't know how we are paying our mortgage this month. i don't know i'm going to pay for my time to go to harvard this month. i figured out a way and it always begins with being fast and decisive and working hard. government employees don't have those issues. they have a job for life. they can never be fired. in many cases they can rape someone and they were still get their pensio
if they did they would be fired in two weeks. you wonder why the obama six the iris on me. i speak honestly to govern in place can work in the private sector. you either do or you can't. that's what our country failing to i ask this question all over the world. i speak about branding from one end of this earth today of the. i was just in amsterdam and asked foreign audiences this question. raise your hand if you think i am passionate and i energy. raise your hand. do i have a lot of energy? now...
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obama was elected on the message that we are going to fix health care. obamacare, by the time it passed, may not have been popular. but most people in the country one of wanted the government to do something about help chart. health care really isn't a free market before obamacare. it has already been messed up by the government steps that encourage people to buy insurance that someone else pays. but the results are already out there and they are already awful. a couple of years ago the detroit medical center announced that it was using barcodes to use computers to electronically keep track of all of its patients in all of their medical records and the drugs that they took. isn't this great? but think about it. supermarkets to that 40 years ago. coca-cola and pepsi is less important than our medical records. but it took 40 years of insanity before we brought this to the system where insurance companies and governments are pulling the strings. frederick hayek said the curious tax of economic is to teach men how little he understands about what he thinks h
obama was elected on the message that we are going to fix health care. obamacare, by the time it passed, may not have been popular. but most people in the country one of wanted the government to do something about help chart. health care really isn't a free market before obamacare. it has already been messed up by the government steps that encourage people to buy insurance that someone else pays. but the results are already out there and they are already awful. a couple of years ago the detroit...
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this on purpose, a collision in 2012 to look back at the 2012 campaign so this is is looking at the obama of verses from the race and that is coming out in august. >> the other is through the perilous fight also of the "washington post"and is a need to look back during the six weeks of the war of 1812 for what the city went through and how it changed and it is supposed to be a good read. if i get through two or three of those books i will be very proud of myself the other one is the great gatsby because believe it or not i never read it. >> on your screen is off 39 the book is called "state of disrepair" fixing the lt
this on purpose, a collision in 2012 to look back at the 2012 campaign so this is is looking at the obama of verses from the race and that is coming out in august. >> the other is through the perilous fight also of the "washington post"and is a need to look back during the six weeks of the war of 1812 for what the city went through and how it changed and it is supposed to be a good read. if i get through two or three of those books i will be very proud of myself the other one is...
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i was on with neil cavuto last week. he said to me, come on. look at this title. cassette, tell me what part of that is inaccurate. he is skinny. he goes on the secret burger runs, but he's not taking any rate. he's a socialist. he's lied to the american people day in and day out. prime example, will cut the deficit in half and my first term we all know how that turned out. he inherited a for under $50 billion annual deficit. he has quadrupled the. every year he's been in office he has run between 13 and $17 trillion annual deficit . added five to international debt and just three years. to give it to see -- this white. it took in three years at 5 trillion. for the first 216 years of the republic that is how much to a weaker from george washington through the first 216 years of this republic as i was developing the central arguments for the book, it occurred to me that he is not just redistributing wealth your home, although he is absolutely doing and. the way he is done it is by attacking the four core pillars of the u.s. economy, the industrial base, the financi
i was on with neil cavuto last week. he said to me, come on. look at this title. cassette, tell me what part of that is inaccurate. he is skinny. he goes on the secret burger runs, but he's not taking any rate. he's a socialist. he's lied to the american people day in and day out. prime example, will cut the deficit in half and my first term we all know how that turned out. he inherited a for under $50 billion annual deficit. he has quadrupled the. every year he's been in office he has run...
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we've been warned about this just last week. "the new york times" has not done obama any favors are protecting him. our system is designed for the media to be an attack dog on all presidents get a watchdog, a guard against excessive government power and especially presidential power. i think that has been missing for the last five years. and you could see it coming with how they were treating him in the election. >> if you had to make a chapter number eight, what would it be? >> it might have to do with addressing how academia has gone so far to the left. in all departments except engineering and business. because that's the question when i make speeches, the two questions i get asked the most. why is the media so far left? y. a report so far to the left? i don't have a good answer and i think that would be something worth researching. >> nine u.s. presidents have spoken at beijing's old courthouse i do as president or during the presidential campaign. booktv recently visited dayton, ohio, with the help of time warner cable, our
we've been warned about this just last week. "the new york times" has not done obama any favors are protecting him. our system is designed for the media to be an attack dog on all presidents get a watchdog, a guard against excessive government power and especially presidential power. i think that has been missing for the last five years. and you could see it coming with how they were treating him in the election. >> if you had to make a chapter number eight, what would it be?...
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>> guest: once a week. there's a lot of research that goes into those columns. >> host: mike, new york city. you're on with ann coulter. >> caller: yeah, hi, ann. good afternoon. i was wondering, if obama gets tossed into the garbage where he belongs, what do you think that would do for our credit rating, and also what would it do for our 14 trillion in debt? and by the way, your pictures on your books are outstanding. >> guest: thank you. the last three, i think, were particularly good. that's the same photographer, so i'm sticking with her. though they're all fine. no, i mean, repealing obamacare for one thing, i think it would help the jobs situation. anyone who knows anyone who runs a small business, and i know many, they're not hiring, they're downsizing, they're often going out of business. you keep hearing this cliche about how, well, businessmen just want certainty. it's the uncertainty that makes everyone afraid to act. there's some element of truth, but, no, obamacare is certain. you're going to h
>> guest: once a week. there's a lot of research that goes into those columns. >> host: mike, new york city. you're on with ann coulter. >> caller: yeah, hi, ann. good afternoon. i was wondering, if obama gets tossed into the garbage where he belongs, what do you think that would do for our credit rating, and also what would it do for our 14 trillion in debt? and by the way, your pictures on your books are outstanding. >> guest: thank you. the last three, i think, were...
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, to obama talking one week ago about our role in syria or not, whether there should be a moral component to american foreign policy, all these questions is america the policemen of the world? as does every major policy decision involving the american incursion goes back to one line the road must be made safe for democracy. that has been geared to, interpreted, misinterpre ted like it not or agree or not for love or hate woodrow wilson, it does not matter that has become the foundation of american foreign policy. as a result it underwent the greatest mobilization in history to that date. we as an isolationist country was big oceans and each side we were going to war, a country with an army the size of portugal was now going to send 2 million in overseas we're talking of of the romantic ocean in america went to war in as a result they merge as a first great modern superpower as the military industrial complex. wilson's main reason with all sorts of chapters in the book but the main reason i believe he sent us into this for he believed we could be a part of the peace and dictate the peace a
, to obama talking one week ago about our role in syria or not, whether there should be a moral component to american foreign policy, all these questions is america the policemen of the world? as does every major policy decision involving the american incursion goes back to one line the road must be made safe for democracy. that has been geared to, interpreted, misinterpre ted like it not or agree or not for love or hate woodrow wilson, it does not matter that has become the foundation of...